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There's the racial-profiling term "driving while black," but in this case, it's more like "black while driving a BMW." Kamilah Brock—who was arrested last year and thrown into a New York City mental facility—is speaking out about her "frightening eight-day 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' ordeal," reports PIX11. According to a lawsuit filed by Brock, she pulled up to a Harlem traffic light in her Beemer on Sept. 12, 2014, when an officer walked up and asked why she didn't have her hands on the steering wheel, per the Huffington Post. "I said I was dancing, I am at a light," says Brock. "He asked me to get out of the car." She was taken into custody that day and freed without charges, Brock says, but things got worse when she arrived at a police substation the next day to pick up her 2003 BMW 325Ci.

"I just felt like from the moment I said I owned a BMW, I was looked at as a liar," she says. That's when police apparently put her in handcuffs and had her taken to Harlem Hospital. According to medical records, she was held at the hospital for eight days, injected with lithium and strong sedatives, and told she could only leave after denying three things: that President Obama followed her on Twitter, that she worked in banking, and that the BMW was hers (all of which she still says are true). The final insult, says Brock, was her $13,000 medical bill. But in its court filings, the city says she was "acting irrational, she spoke incoherently and inconsistently, and she ran into the middle of traffic on Eighth Ave.," the New York Daily News reported in July. (A restaurant says a "racist" receipt was just an inside joke.)

This is the b.s. NYPD officers busy themselves with while ignoring real crime. NYPD is still out of control and that "Dr." should have a mental evaluation, as well. Another big payout for the city for abusive behavior by police, already in the millions this year.

Lefty_Libby

Sep 14, 2015 11:49 PM CDT

OK, I don't know car prices. I know BMW's are expensive. I bought a bed from a gal on Craigslist. She brought it to me in her car. It so happens she was a beautiful young black professional woman. I couldn't believe she put the furniture in her car, which was a gorgeous Lexus SUV with a leather interior. It seems there's more than one successful black woman in the States with nice wheels. Fortunately, no cops bothered us, while we were making our deal.

EngineerBen

Sep 14, 2015 3:47 PM CDT

It's not racial -- they simply couldn't believe that any sane person would WANT to own a BMW.